Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their Baltic backyard the Germans last week were getting a taste of their own mine and U-boat medicine. Six German troop transports went down. Cargo ships that spill Swedish iron ore and Finnish wood pulp into the Nazi war machine were being sunk. Trans-Baltic ferry service had been suspended. German Baltic ports were jammed with minesweepers, destroyers, patrol boats and anti-aircraft vessels...
...getting ready for a Jules Verne venture to win the war: air freighting. To a nation pledged to deliver millions of tons of war materials to war fronts thousands of miles away, the use of fleets of cargo planes over six continents and seven oceans is no free choice. Something has to be done. The United Nations have been losing the Battle of the Atlantic for a long time now, and they are smack up against logistics-the time-space factor involved in war-supply problems. If Russia, China, Britain, Australia and the Middle East cannot be supplied...
...spite of U.S. and British destroyers, sub-chasers, corvettes, far-ranging aircraft, of small private boats on patrol duty, of R.A.F. bombing of submarine plants in Germany, Axis torpedoes were still blowing in cargo bottoms of the United Nations; 337 sinkings had been acknowledged by the U.S. Navy since Jan. 14. Nevertheless, the U.S. was learning things...
...this progress a big bouquet must go to little-known California Shipbuilding Corp. Sprawled on Terminal Island in Los Angeles Harbor, Calship delivered 15 fat cargo ships in June-almost one-quarter of the whole U.S. total and an alltime world's record. Best the fabulous Hog Island yard ever did was eight a month. And they were only 7,500 tonners v. 10,500 tons for today's boats...
These specially designed combination carriers can operate in shallow water, climb over rocks and rapids, slither up & down river banks to take cargo. They are expected to bring the jungles within quick and easy distance of civilization by utilizing South America's unrivaled network of tropical rivers instead of expensive highways and railroads...